SKY FERREIRA

my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever

i may have already said this but i expected an immaculately pretty synth-pop effort from sky and got something much grungier and more gross so it makes sense why i couldn't get my head around it at first. thank god though

think i also identified new wave specifically because so much of this album sounds like a blondie record that was remastered too hot (a compliment, a perfect sound)

OTM x1000. Very close to album of the decade for me

Japanese xmas might finally come this year

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/i-got-robbed-of-my-20s-sky-ferreira-on-fighting-her-record-label-and-refusing-to-compromise

my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link

Those posts are hilarious because to me this is such a brad record.

Omanko is one of the most outrageous things ever to appear on a mainstream pop album? Really impressed

Still think every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing," which seems to be the song most people (who came late) gravitate towards. ¯\(ツ)/¯

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:52 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Serious Madonna vibes in that latest track.

xp yeah "Omanko" is absolutely outrageous. It reminds me of Stereolab's "OLV 26" with noisier guitars. And I totally agree that every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing"

Let’s calm down guys. We can be friends with NTMT and Everything is Embarassing.

Haha "Everything Is Embarrassing" is great, I just like the album more. Cool thing is we don't have to choose one or the other!

the best song on the ghost ep is "lost in my bedroom"

"lost in the bedroom" rules

Thanks to this thread revive I searched for a second-hand CD of NTMT. I thought the copy at my local record store was outrageously priced at NZ$12.95 but then checked Discogs... Oh my... Immediately added to my cart.

The vinyl prices are next level. Discogs at its best.

Took me a decade to be aware of it, but this album is pretty cool. Wish I had been aware back then, 25 year old me would’ve loved it.

fascinated by 'moka and imago discover iconic & canonical ilx artists theyve ignored extensive threads on for years'

jk its not that fascinating

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

I mean her follow-up album is allegedly coming out finally sometime this year, so the revive was appropriate either way.

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, August 29, 2022 12:38 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk, theres like pages of ppl talking about why they like a thing and imago stumbles in like "I deem this great, now that its entered my line of sight" a decade later on multiple threads...its kind of grating & self important

setting aside whatever beef you have with imago, it just makes this place seem less inviting when we're shitting on people for being enthusiastic about a thing in the appropriate thread just because it's arbitrarily deemed the wrong time. it's easy enough to just ignore if it isn't pleasing to you.

Is it really that different if I had posted “this is a cool album” 10 years ago? By that metric every time anyone on ilm has expressed excitement or approval of an album they’re being grating and self-important.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

Xpost: yes, but she has that chameleonic model thing where depending the era and the photoshoot she looks like different people. I’ve seen photos of her where she also reminds me of Rihanna.

Also reminds me of Katherine Langford in some photos.

Maybe even like Robert Pattinson lol

But yeah Debbie Harry is the one that comes to mind in overall looks and style.

lmao, deeply honoured Tim!

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

idk, it really does put to the test the saying, "better late than never".

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

― Tim F

I don't wear the right robes for bestowing those blessings.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

Not just you — this is from the Guardian piece linked above: "In Spain, her extremely low-energy stage presence conjured a vision of Kristen Stewart playing Debbie Harry."

That article also makes it sound like she's still not doing great. If she does actually release the album, I hope she's in a mental/physical state to handle all the stress around it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZy8tqA0ts/

unreleased snippet, she's mad at her label not letting her put anything out

Why won't Capitol just drop her? I can't think of anyone who's been bound by a contract as long as she's been while the label sits on almost everything she records. 99% of the time they just shelve material and say bye.

saw her in nyc last night (she said it was her first time playing here in at least 8 years) and she was completely amazing

did she play any new stuff?

she played a song called “innocent kind” — there’s video of it from other shows. i thought it sounded good! the songs from night time sounded revelatory anew to me

leak?

seeing people say that it's just a collection of previously leaked demos someone put together? idk i can't actually track down this 'leak' though

but she did announced a bunch of tour dates so maybe something will happen

on a soundcloud account called stifler’s mom

yeah a lot of those tracks have previously leaked afaik but idk if it's all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YdTW7A8C4

she's a karaoke covers artist now

lol I saw her live and yeah that "Voices Carry" cover is note by note

very chaotic gig

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/sky-ferreira-emerges-after-10-years-of-being-erased-by-record-label-drama-20240530-p5jhw6.html

Last November, Variety reported that Ferreira had discretely vanished from the label’s public artist roster. If it pointed to a new dawn for the singer, the specifics are more complicated, says Ferreira. Is she officially free from her Capitol contract?

“Um, technically. In some sense. It wasn’t really sorted out the way it should have been, what a surprise,” she says with an audible eye roll. “It’s very ambiguous. I’ve gotta dance around a lot of things, figure it out and get things back that people shouldn’t own that I never gave them and that they never paid for, you know?

“Honestly, it’s a bit cruel,” she adds. “After trying to get out of there for so long, it feels very deliberate. Waiting 10 years to do that? They should have just dropped me 10 years ago if they weren’t planning on doing anything.”

Tracks she’d worked on across the years, including recordings that were to make up Masochism, are tied up in Capitol’s red tape, Ferreira says, limiting her potential to release new music. Her frustration is palpable.

“There’s stuff I did there that no one else had anything to do with. I didn’t have anyone A&R-ing my record, giving me direction, no one even set up a session for me. I was told that no one wanted to work with me for 10 years, which just wasn’t true.

“There’s a lot of things that have happened and at some point I would like to be able to say my side of it without it sounding hysterical or me having to pay some kind of price for it. But it’s kind of like, what else is there left to do to me? They already took 10 years of my career away from me – what else can they do?”

she finally got out of her capitol contract last year! but they still own all her recordings so masochism is still never coming out. hopefully she can manage to get the rights to it (it sounds like she's trying?) or just re-record it all if she has to.

i'm seeing her tonight, hopefully she won't show up too late

she shouldn't even bother releasing something that has the same concept/title as whatever she was doing over a decade ago anyway tbh

Hope you have fun!

I was at her show last night, and she was merely...35-40 minutes late lol (this was with a start time of 9.40pm). She played 22 songs and a couple of them had to be restarted, so it ended right on midnight. We got several unreleased tracks as well as the three covers she's currently doing (Til Tuesday, Tamaryn, Suzanne Vega). The whole thing is frankly...pretty chaotic, shambolic and barely professional - she refuses to have a spotlight on her so you won't be able to see her face at all and crowd interaction is limited to an "anyways" or a "sorry" from time to time, plus after literally every song there was a protracted pause to fix something technical. Yet despite all that, when she was actually doing her thing, she sounded...pretty great?! A true enigma and I'll always root for her to succeed because the talent remains there and the songs (the new ones too) are great.

Saw her in London recently and yeah shambolic is the word - the part that did leave me uncomfortable was at one point she snapped at her backing band after a few false starts and the audience applauded her. I get that there's a parasocial element, we all want her to succeed and so on, but no need to make some working musicians the bad guys here.